Woman arrested on drug charges

What law enforcement thought to be initially a busted windshield, turned out to lead to the arrest of a Lakemont woman who was under the influence of drugs behind the wheel.

Leanna Frances Hamilton, 37, was arrested and charged with DUI – [drugs] after the responding deputy observed her to be “incoherent and out of sorts” following a display of odd behavior.

A concerned caller notified the Rabun County Sheriff’s Department of a woman sitting in her car with a smashed out windshield who was parked outside the Lakemont Post Office.

Law enforcement arrived at the scene in the early morning hours of Thursday, August 23 and noticed Hamilton had “approximately 5 inches of rocks in the driver floorboard.”

Additionally, the deputy noticed “she was unable to sit still and was constantly moving and fidgeting while her eyes were constricted to pin points.”

Upon the officers request to conduct field sobriety tests on Hamilton, the woman refused multiple times and “kept saying that she had rocks and fossils in the car sporadically.”

When the woman finally obliged and completed the DUI field test, she was immediately placed under arrest after the officer determined she was under the influence of drugs.

As Hamilton was placed in the back of the deputy’s patrol car, “she started yelling and asked to get the hydrocodone out of her car” according to the police report from the RCSO.

Hamilton remains lodged at the Rabun County Detention Center.